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The Brain
Term | Definition |
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Frontal Lobe | High Level Learning- helps weigh risks and rewards. Regulates emotions and thoughts with good connection to other areas of the brain |
Parietal Lobe | Connection- Communicates with other loves. Multitasks and is responsible for sensory integration. Activated each time a thought changes |
Occipital Lobe | Optical Processing- Tells you what you see |
Temporal Lobe | Auditory Processing- Tells you what you hear; Memory-Some auditory memory; Balance- helps keep your balance |
Brain Stem | Regulation- Helps regulate heart rate, breathing, sleeping and eating |
Cerebellum | Auto Pilot- Helps control coordination and balance. Enables talking, walking etc without thinking about it |
nervous system | Your ____ ____ coordinates everything you do. |
nervous system | Whether it is walking, breathing or thinking your ______ ______ is in control. |
cell | Your entire body is made up of small structures called ______ |
cells | There are many different types of _____ in your body. |
job | Each cell plays an important _______ in keeping our body working |
nerve cell or neuron | The nervous system gets its name from its smallest part the ______ _______ or ________ |
neuron's | The _______ job is to carry messages throughout the body |
100 billion; brain | There are over _____ ____ neurons located in the _______ |
carry messages | What is the job of the neuron's? |
spinal cord | The ____ ____ starts at the bottom of the brain stem and run down the spine, |
nerves | The spinal cord is made up of a long bundle of _______ |
bones; skull | The _____ of the spinal cord column surround the spinal cord and protect it; just like the ______ protects your brain |
spinal cord | The _____ ______ connects the nerves that travel all around the body to the brain |
electrical signals | These messages are actually tiny ____ ______ that can travel as fast as 200 miles per hour |
brain; nervous system | The ________ can be thought of as the control center or central computer for your ______ _______ |
controls; nervous system | The nervous system ________ your entire body and works with the rest of the _______ _______ to send messages to and from different parts of your body |
brain | The _______ is made up of different parts that work together. |
cerebellum, brain stem, front lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe and temporal lobe | Parts of the brain |
two parts | The nervous system is broken down into ____ _______ |
central nervous system (CNS) | The _______ _______ _______ is made up of the brain and spinal cord |
peripheral nervous system (PNS) | The _____ _______ ______ is made up of bundles of neurons, called nerves that branch out to the rest of the body |